An old man asks the reason for her sorrow, and she responds by telling him of a former lover who pursued, seduced, and finally abandoned her. In the poem, the speaker sees a young woman weeping at the edge of a river, into which she throws torn-up letters, rings, and other tokens of love. ₢= Form and content = The poem consists of forty-seven seven-line stanzas written in the rhyme royal (with the rhyme scheme ababbcc), a metre and structure identical to that of Shakespeare's poem The Rape of Lucrece. Although published in a book of Shakespeare's work, the poem's authorship is a matter of critical debate. It is given the title 'A Lover's Complaint' in the book, which was published by Thomas Thorpe in 1609. A Lover's Complaint is a narrative poem published as an appendix to the original edition of Shakespeare's sonnets.
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